Time Team covered the Sevso Treasure on (UK) Channel 4 on December 26, 2008 ("The mystery of the Roman treasure"). Channel 4's website has plenty of useful links including a quiz on "the illegal antiquities trade".
As Channel 4 recommends "Looting Matters" in its list of resources to "Find Out More" here are previous postings on the Sevso Treasure:
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The Met returns three antiquities to Iraq
Source: Manhattan DA New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned three antiquities to Iraq ( Manhattan DA Press Release ). The th...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh... -
The Fire of Hephaistos exhibition included "seven bronzes ... that have been linked to the Bubon cache of imperial statues" (p. 1...
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Thank you for the link.
It's very interesting to read about the Seuso treasure here in Hungary.
Unfortunately I rather sceptical that these finds will be ever returned to our country.
I will not be surprised if in ten years we will see them in a new museum in some Gulf country, and still it would not be worst possibility....
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